Hey, some time back when I was using BeOS, I used a tool that did graphical resizing with an alternative algorith, so that resizing anything always looked real good and sexy....not like Paint Shop Pro and friends that magled vector-type graphics.

But, in looking for that sorta tool now, I don't even know how to search for it. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about? Can ya point me at a good resizing tool?

you can do some pretty nice looking image resizing in java, just follow these steps:

create a new BufferedImage the size that you want the new image to be obtain the graphics context from the new image: newImage.createGraphics()set this rendering hint: g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC) (you could also use BILINEAR)draw the original image using the graphics object you got from your new image: g2.drawImage(oldImage, 0, 0, newImageWidth, newImageHeight, null);if you want to save it to a file, its easy as ImageIO.write(newImage, "jpg", new File("resizedImage.jpg"));

Genuine Fractals is a plugin for Photoshop that does lossless saving in a .stn file format. The format is actually a series of fractal type formulas so the image can be resized and it looks great. It also compresses the file size quite a bit. Its mostly use for large images, 10 meg +.

Unfortunately it looks like the LE version is no longer available, so you only have a 30 day trial and the full version is $199. I got the LE version years ago for $25, ver 2.0, they are up to 4.0 now.

For $50 it would be a great plugin to have if you make huge files or would like to do a lot of resizing. For $199, it seems way over priced unless you are making money with it, or you have piles of cash.

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